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After I finished bad mouthing my Brussels sprouts I went down to the garden and started breaking off the bottom leaves to use as a weed barrier. Lo and behold I found tightly formed, aphid free sprouts hiding below. Mid August in the middle of a heat wave and I’m picking Brussels sprouts. Contrarian plants for sure they are. It’s […]

Watering my seed rows and transplants with a watering can is the funnest part of gardening for me. As soon as the seed sprouts get tall enough to fall over I drag a furrow along both sides of them so I can walk along and fill it with water that doesn’t run off away from the plants. I get to […]

Whelp I did it again. Rigged up my shade cloth and got a huge chunk of ground cleared. I was glad I had watered it the day before because it took only about 15 min. to complete. It felt like fun too. I started thinking how the entire garden can be weed free with just a minimal amount of daily […]

While I was picking green beans this morning I was reminded why I’m so adamant about mulching them with straw or hay. Not only was the ground moist under them, but when the bushes fell over, which they always do when loaded with beans, the beans didn’t land in the mud, or get mud splashed on them when I watered. […]

The watermelon are ripening. It’s time to cut back on their water. They will be sweeter and less mushy if you do. The first cantaloupe got picked yesterday. Don’t ask me how it was because I didn’t get any. I left it on the counter so my wife could see that we had a ripe one, and the next thing […]

I rigged up my shade cloth yesterday because it was 99 degrees out. I got a lot of weeding done under it. It was actually fun for the first three quarters of it because the slightest movement of air would hit my sweaty body and cool me off. Then I just got tired but didn’t want to quit because it […]

I flipped the 2×6 board off my newly planted row of broccoli before they could come up under it, and found two slugs. If I place boards around the garden, and keep the soil moist under them, I could probably control the slug population by just flipping them over every day and squishing the sleeping critters. I was reminded of […]